Amusement device.



G.- H. HAMILTON & V. E..MELLRE.

AMUSEMENT DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 190B.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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AMUSEMENT DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAY 9. 1908.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PAT.

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GEORGE l'l'. HAMILTON AND VItTOR l9. Ml'GliLl-U'l, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.SAID HAMILTON ASSIGNOR 'lO EDWARD CO NNO RS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

AMUSEIVLENT DEVICE.

Application filed May 9, 1908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Gnoiicn H. I-[Anm- TON and VIc'roR E. lvlnmnn,citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Amusement Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to amusement devices and has for its object a newand novel arrangement of cars adapted to carry several passengers andwhich are turned loose on an inclined floor and allowed to run to thebottom of the incline where it meets with re volving pulleys that turnand throw the cars about the lower end of the floor until the attendantis ready to permit them to pass, one at a time, out of a gate to belifted to the upper end of the floor. These and other objects anddetails of the invention are more fully described in the followingspecification, set forth in the claims and illustrated in the drawings,where:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the platform, showing pulleys and the cars inoperation. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a car. Fig. 3 is a plan viewshowing the operation of the pul leys and elevator. Fig. & is alongitudinal vertical sectional View.

The inclined platform 5 is carried on suitable uprights 6 of anypreferred construction and braced in a substantial manner. It has aroundits edge a railing 7 and at the front end is a horizontal platform 8upon which the passengers are received and the cars or similar bodiesare loaded, and from which the elevator 9 which consists of an endlesschain 10 with projecting fingers to engage the cars or similar bodies isstarted and is carried upward with the inclined platform to its upperend and pass over a pulley 11 to encircle the pulley 12 at the lower endof the platform and which driven by means of the motor 13.

The cars or similar bodies 14: as will be seen in Fig. 2 are secured andadapted to contain several persons in a standing position but areadmitted through a door 15 which has a latch 16 to hold it in its closedposition after the occupants have been ad mitted. They have a protrudingbase 17 which is adapted to engage adjacent cars or the pulleys l8 andthey are mounted on swiveled casters 19 which permits their move ment inany direction.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Serial No. 431,808.

The pulleys 18 are parallel with the platform 5 and their shafts 20 passthrough the platform and have on their lower ends the sprocket or bandwheels 21 which are driven by the bands 22 which cause them to rotate inopposite direct-ions, the lowest pulley being driven by the belt 23 fromthe motors l3.

Atthe lower end of the platform is a swinging bar 24: operated by alever 25 and this bar acts as a gate to prevent the movement of the carsthrough the opening 26 which admits them to the platform where thepassengers are released and additional ones admitted to the cars and thecars are then shifted in the alley 27 up which the elevator passes.

In the operating of this device when the cars or similar bodies areloaded with passengers they are carried to the upper end of the platformand turned loose, when they immediately run to the lower end on accountof the inclination of the platform and congregate at the lower end wherethey come in contact with the pulleys 1.8 which rotate them and causethem to Waltz around causing the occupants a novel and excitingexperience and causing amusement to the spectators.

It is obvious that we do not confine ourselves to the exact constructionof certain details as shown in the drawings but we may depart from saidconstruction as may be needed without departing from the essentialfeatures shown and described.

\Vhat we claim new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In an amusement device, the combination with an inclined platform, ofa movable body adapted to travel upon said platform, and means disposedupon the platform in the path of movement of said body for imparting awhirling motion to the same.

2. An amusement device comprising an inclined plfll'fOllll. a movablebody, oppositely rotated means for whirling said body at the bottom ofthe platform, and an elevator for carrying said body to the highestpoint of said platform.

3. In an amusement device, the combination with a platform, of a movablebody, and motor driven means for whirling said body.

4. An amusement device comprising a platform, movable cars upon theplatform,

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and motor driven means for imparting a l meal'is for driving theelevator, rotating dancing motion to the said cars.

All amusement device comprising a platform, a car free to move upon theplat form, and motor driven means for engaging the car to impart adancing motion thereto.

6. An amusement device comprising an inclined platform, a car, anelevator at one side of the platform adapted to discharge said car atthe top of said platforn, and motor driven means for whirling said car.

7, In an amusement device, the combination with. an inclined platform,of an elevator at one side of the same, cars adapted to be turned looseon the platform, motor driven means at the lower end of the plat formfor rotating the cars, and means for releasing the same.

8. An amusement device comprising an inclined platform, movable carsupon the platform, an elevator, means for discharging said cars to saidelevator, means where by said cars may congregate at the bottom of saidplatform, and means for whirling said cars after they have beendischarged from said elevator.

9. In an amusement device, the combination with cars adapted to run inany direction, of an inclined platform, an elevator,

' means at the lower end of the platform adapted to engage and revolvethe cars, and means for driving the rotating means.

10. In an amusement device, the combination with cylindrical cars havingside doors and mounted on casters, of an inclined platform with anelevator at one side, rollers at the lower end of the platform adaptedto engage the cars and turn them, motors rotating the rollers andoperating the elevator, and means for releasing the cars.

11. in an amusement device, the combination with cylindrical cars withprojecting bases and mounted on casters, of an inclined platform, ahorizontal platform at the end of the first platform, a gate separatingthe two platforms, rotating horizontal rollers to engage the projectingbases of the cars, an endless chain with fingers at one side of theinclined platform and motors operating the rollers and elevator.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

GEORGE H. HAMILTON. VICTOR E. MELLR-E, Witnesses K. ALLEN, 1L GRIFFITH.

